reading a string from a file

Question

I have one text file. I have to read one string from the text file. I am using c code. can any body help ?

Answer 1

void read_file(char string[60])
{
  FILE *fp;
  char filename[20];
  printf("File to open: \n", &filename );
  gets(filename);
  fp = fopen(filename, "r");  /* open file for input */

  if (fp)  /* If no error occurred while opening file */
  {           /* input the data from the file. */
    fgets(string, 60, fp); /* read the name from the file */
    string[strlen(string)] = '\0';
    printf("The name read from the file is %s.\n", string );
  }
  else          /* If error occurred, display message. */
  {
    printf("An error occurred while opening the file.\n");
  }
  fclose(fp);  /* close the input file */
}